Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four days after Hart resumed his candidacy, network evening television gave him 39.31 minutes of coverage, while allotting George Bush and Bob Dole six minutes and Michael Dukakis less than three. Of course, as Hart anticipated, most editors trotted out the picture of Donna Rice sitting on Hart's lap, reported the anger and anguish of other Democratic candidates and quoted authorities who said he was unelectable. But once Hart shot up quickly in the polls, journalists stopped being so dismissive...
Hart's problems run far deeper than a simple desire to let loose of the bonds of mother and childhood. Anyone who has seen the infamous National Enquirer photos of Rice sitting on Hart's lap and a clearly blasted Hart playing the congas in a nightclub cannot have come away thinking they were looking at a happy or stable...
...mannerism and repeat it over and over, as if Director Fred Pletcher had told his cast that nervous tics make characters more human. As a result, Raphael slicks his hair back, Hurewitz stammers like James Stewart, Paulus taps her foot, Bader walks around with her hands folded in her lap, and Tolins picks the wax out of his ear with his pinky and bellows, "Hehhehhehheh," like Jackie Gleason snapping at Audrey Meadows. All this becomes annoying quickly...
...Pierson feared for her own life as well. "Her father threatened to kill her if she did anything," says the attorney. Although there was never any physical evidence, neighbors and friends testified that they suspected abuse but were afraid to speak out. Says Gianelli: "It all fell on the lap of a 16-year-old." And it was a problem that finally proved too much to bear...
...Yale, but he did not graduate. Reason: he paid a student to write a paper for him about Thomas Hardy's novels. Although admitting that he cheated, Ford denied that he was caught because he accidentally dropped the bill for the student's services into the professor's lap. "I may be stupid," he told Biographer Booton Herndon, "but I'm not that stupid...